Tag: Philadelphia

A plane with 2 people on board crashes and sets homes on fire in Philadelphia

All six people on board an airborne medical jet were killed in the crash of the plane near a shopping center in northeast Philadelphia on Friday night. A child patient had finished treatment for an illness at Shriners Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia and was returning to her home country, according to the hospital.

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For the first time, a Pig’sKidney was transplant into a person

A US hospital said that it transplanted a pig liver into a human using gene-edited pig. The organ circulated the person’s blood for three days. In January, a team at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia connected a clinically dead person to a genetically modified pig’s liver located outside their body. The organ circulated the person’s blood for three days.

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